Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

So, at the last, a story.

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Never fall for anyone. It's only sadness that is gifted by them to you in your rest of the life.Kills the loving person inside you.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

Off the court, I tend to stick to the classics, but I like to have fun with color and accessories. I'm from Spain, so colors are important for me.

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.